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...point or another, Jack had a white wife and an Indian wife, worked as a huckster of phony patent medicines, was a famous gunslinger, a Cheyenne hero, a scout for Gen. Custer, a drunk, a hermit, a pious churchgoer, a great lover, a mule-skinner, a shopowner. He also toyed with suicide...
...financial flipflop, the CBS-owned Manhattan rival to WABC installed a jazzy new set two weeks ago, shed one anchor man and adopted a slightly folksier style. WABC's News Director Al Primo reports that "dozens" of out-of-town TV executives have flown into New York to scout his operation. By his count, some 60 stations are already employing some variation of the format...
...feeling that they're them and I'm me." His teammate Gene Washington, who grooves on $350 Oscar de la Renta suits, deplores the "archaic regimen" of traditional football-club rules. "Room checks at 11 p.m. on a Friday night before a Sunday game is Cub Scout stuff. I think professional players are above that. They will separate themselves from the team if they don't take care of themselves. They will be judged by their own fellows...
...college hurdle champion and a high jumper who has cleared 6 ft. 6 in., he is literally all over the field. Whenever Michigan needed crucial rushing yardage this season, Dierdorf was the man called upon to blast open the hole. "He has great feet, agility and balance," says one scout. "He doesn't stumble or yield on pass blocking. He hangs in there...
...menacing as any of the great pro linemen Grambling has turned out (Ernie Ladd, Willie Davis, Buck Buchanan), Harris is the quickest of the bunch-as fast, coaches swear, as some of the team's running backs. "When he decides he's going in," says one scout, "that's it. You can't keep him out." Though Southern Cal's Smith missed six games this season because of injuries, he will not be overlooked by the pro recruiters. Rearing up like a grizzly, he is tall and rangy enough "to bat down passes like flies...